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carolina milanesi, an analyst for gartner, a technology research firm, says apple wants to capitalize on that. >> apple needs to own maps. they need to own location. the end game is knowing your location you can monitize from that knowledge, knowing what the consumeriodo, where they are and what they do where. >> reporter: google or apple can deliver doid advertising to users, based on their currentid location or where they intend to go. there's also plenty of one-ups- manship in the map making business, where pizzazz on the screen is attractive and useful to someone like david rumsey, a san francisco map collector with a healthy respect for apples efforts in digital map making. he runs apple maps on one ipad and google maps on his other. >> what's interesting about the apple is we are in 3-d. so as we zoom in we can change and see the whole scene in three dimensions. in google maps we can zoomn or course, the resolution in juston as good. but we don't see it in 3-d. in order to see it in 3-d, we go to google earth. so googles got two applications, apple rolled it all into one. it's a
carolina milanesi, an analyst for gartner, a technology research firm, says apple wants to capitalize on that. >> apple needs to own maps. they need to own location. the end game is knowing your location you can monitize from that knowledge, knowing what the consumeriodo, where they are and what they do where. >> reporter: google or apple can deliver doid advertising to users, based on their currentid location or where they intend to go. there's also plenty of one-ups- manship in...
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- the cycles that we see and how much of it is what is talked about it as suctural issues, changing technology, globalization, a kind of new normal that we've heard about from many people? >> well -- >> i think-- hold on, let me go with austan goolsbee here first. >> okay. >> okay, so two parts of the how much of the unemployment rate is coming from structural, i think not that high. i do think that is the thing that the economy is going to have to do. the fundamental reason why this recession looks a lot like the 2001 recovery and not the 1983 recovery i we can't go back to doing what we were doing before the recession began. just as in 2001 a bubble popped and then you're trying to shift what the economy is doing. so there is some element of that. but we also have got a significant component as i say of the whole world has slowed down. the u.s. growth rate while not fast enough is faster than the rest of the advanced world. so we've got to find a way to get ourselves boosted up where we're not getting any support from being able to increase our exports to other countries when that is exactly
- the cycles that we see and how much of it is what is talked about it as suctural issues, changing technology, globalization, a kind of new normal that we've heard about from many people? >> well -- >> i think-- hold on, let me go with austan goolsbee here first. >> okay. >> okay, so two parts of the how much of the unemployment rate is coming from structural, i think not that high. i do think that is the thing that the economy is going to have to do. the fundamental...
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brought about by forces that are larger than our own society, globalization, the reach of technology and channg demographics. and within that, i felt that america was at a time when we desperately needed to have the strongest possible value space. we needed to be more in touch with the best of the american idea, the best aspects of the american idea. >> brown: value space you say. well, i say the value space. the space where we talk about why we do things, not what we're going to do. i felt that space had emptied out. we had had a very tough first decade of this century. i thought the conservate vision of small government, low tas, big defense, had played itself out and that progressives, liberals, we were flat on our back. >> brown: you use this term hand making i implies a sense of craft, a hands-on. your own background i know from being involved in folklore and music. >> yes. i'm a folklorist and amuse i cannologist. that colors my perspective. i reach back for the foundation of my argument to the late 19th century, to that other transition, the industrial revolution, and the kret
brought about by forces that are larger than our own society, globalization, the reach of technology and channg demographics. and within that, i felt that america was at a time when we desperately needed to have the strongest possible value space. we needed to be more in touch with the best of the american idea, the best aspects of the american idea. >> brown: value space you say. well, i say the value space. the space where we talk about why we do things, not what we're going to do. i...
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when talk about the influence of globalization or the influence of advancing technology and changing demographics, my feeling is that what that produces is the same kind of anxiety that was no doubt felt 100-plus years ago when the industrial revolution was changing agricultural society upsidedown. so i think that the tea party is responding to a real problem. i don't think that notion of doubling down and saying not only do we need small government, which we already have a kind of shrunken public realm, but we need eve smler government is right direction. >> brown: here we are in the midst of a campaign. if you use the word values campaign, i think. >> yes. brown: what are we not hearing? from either side? i mean, what is missing in this campaign that you think needs to be out there. >> it's very interesting. i think that this is a values campaign because at the conclusion of this election, this country will move in a new direction. i think that the republican argument -- we will keep you safe. we willeep uncle sam off your back. we will keep washington out of your wallet -- needs t
when talk about the influence of globalization or the influence of advancing technology and changing demographics, my feeling is that what that produces is the same kind of anxiety that was no doubt felt 100-plus years ago when the industrial revolution was changing agricultural society upsidedown. so i think that the tea party is responding to a real problem. i don't think that notion of doubling down and saying not only do we need small government, which we already have a kind of shrunken...